March 2013
2 posts
September 2012
1 post
carpe whatever: On sincerity →
mmesurly:
Please be.
Because I am. I am very. I am earnest and sincere and Excited About Things. It’s hard for me to connect to people, and when I do it feels like magic. I know that sometimes I can be overwhelming. I meet someone and I love them. I’m the five year old kid with a crush on her babysitter; I…
July 2012
1 post
June 2012
3 posts
Rob Delaney: Dear Unsettlingly Large Number of... →
robdelaney:
Dear Unsettlingly Large Number of Mouth-Breathing Misogynist Fuck Faces Who Are Saying I “Proved Carolla’s Point” in my “Women in Comedy” Piece,
You are very, very stupid.
(If you, dear reader, are not an idiot and can’t immediately put yourself in the mindset of these sub-moronic…
May 2012
1 post
April 2012
5 posts
March 2012
7 posts
TSA Freaks Out, Gets Longtime Critic Bruce... →
wilwheaton:
TechDirt:
He didn’t get sick or have something better to do. Hell, he didn’t even miss a flight. Instead, according to Schneier, the TSA itself had him removed from the panel:
On Friday, at the request of the TSA, I was removed from the witness list. The excuse was that I am involved in a lawsuit against the TSA, trying to get them to suspend their full-body scanner program. But...
February 2012
5 posts
Rob Delaney: A 17 year old girl wrote me a message... →
robdelaney:
A 17 year old girl wrote me a message on Tumblr asking if it was “wrong” for her to have the same sense of humor as me.
Hi [REDACTED],
It’s very nice of you to write. The answer is no, it’s not wrong for a 17 year old girl like you to have the exact same sense of humor as me. I am DELIGHTED…
January 2012
6 posts
…in the real world where societies are plural, then it is both inevitable...
– http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/to-name-the-unnameable/
December 2011
12 posts
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
November 2011
27 posts
I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...
– Maya Angelou
She also said “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”